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Living through translated language

Living in a world that is intensely globalized, artists are obliged to communicate with the international art world in a language that is not their native tongue. To maintain a bank with a translated biography, exhibition records, critic’s essays of the works and artist’s statements is the sine qua non for promoting the artist to the international art scene. As we know, Engli...

Times Forum | 2017-03-27 17:12

Betting on ROK's economic resilience

By Jeffrey I. Kim The world is closely watching the development of the political and security situation on the Korean peninsula. On March 10, former President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment was upheld. The Republic of Korea (ROK) will have a new president on May 10. During the election campaign, there will be hot debates on policy promises among different candidates....

Times Forum | 2017-03-21 17:36

Crisis of trust at Institut Pasteur

What began as a yearlong cover-up by Christian Brechot, Marc Jouan, and Roberto Bruzzone, ended with a big blowout. Brechot confessed about misleading the public by attesting that the MERS virus brought to Paris posed no health risks; while, Bruzzone denied that MERS virus was taken to Paris, as we await the overdue results of the Korean CDC investigation. MERS samples were d...

Times Forum | 2017-03-13 17:11

Post-truth Korea grapples with Cold War

Clearly, modern South Korea had its start in the Korean War. The national life is deeply rooted in the Korean people’s encounter with the terrible theater that roiled on the peninsula nearly seven decades ago. It was a glocal conflict, with a local corrosive struggle backed with a globally reverberating multi-national engagement. Demographically, it should be noted, the young...

Times Forum | 2017-03-07 17:03

Trump chooses confrontation on Korea

The decision to refuse visas for North Korean officials to travel to New York for unofficial talks was attributed by the Washington Post to the “State Department.” Only unnamed sources were linked to the story. Again without attribution to any individual, the reason was claimed to be the death in Malaysia of Kim Jung Nam, half-brother of the North Korean leader. It was sugges...

Times Forum | 2017-02-26 17:13

Park's alternative world

President Park Geun-hye's world is that of an autistic. The ongoing impeachment trial has been presented as a circus to everyone except her and her ardent, flag-waving supporters. Obviously, she is involuntarily inserted in the spectacle because of her inability to give a better explanation of what happened. What is so surprising is that when she could voluntarily engage to g...

Times Forum | 2017-02-13 14:50

Here Mattis confirms US on sidelines

US Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed during his visit to Korea that the US is unlikely to join in the game of improving the atmosphere or lowering tension in the Northeast Asian region for the foreseeable future. That was the underlying message of the long-expected but barely-relevant statements from Mattis during his visit to Seoul. Mirroring North Korean claims, the ...

Times Forum | 2017-02-12 16:34

Imperial presidents

The recent protests that have swept first Korea and then the U.S. have a common theme: they represent efforts to curb the threat of “imperial presidencies.” Both countries are now grappling with constitutional issues in the wake of Choi-gate and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.

Times Forum | 2017-02-08 17:12

Religious differences run deep in our pluralistic world. It may come as no surprise that such disagreements sometimes end up in violence. Yet that rarely is the case in what might be called Christendom. Indeed, in large part there is little discrimination let alone persecution against spiritual minorities in majority Christian nations. The exceptions tend to be countries that...

Times Forum | 2017-02-07 15:49

Yukihito's Hint

Tokyo Gallery +BTAP has been organizing a series of exhibitions in Beijing under the umbrella theme of “Neo-Moroism” for the last four years since 2013. It is a handsomely scaled group show of artists from China, Korea and Japan, with the list of participating artists changing every year and involving venerable curators like Pi Daojian and Minemura Toshiaki as principal mento...

Times Forum | 2017-01-23 16:29

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